A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen, Količina 1;Količina 2671875 |
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... ment with which they should not meddle . On the retirement of Sir Robert Peel after the corn - law bill had been carried , the Earl of Aber- deen followed his example , and on the melancholy and sudden death of the former , the earl was ...
... ment with which they should not meddle . On the retirement of Sir Robert Peel after the corn - law bill had been carried , the Earl of Aber- deen followed his example , and on the melancholy and sudden death of the former , the earl was ...
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... ment . On the 2d of October , 1860 , the earl invited the officers of the Methlic and Turves Volunteer rifles ( his own tenants ) to Haddo House , and pre- sented to each of them a handsome and valuable sword , bearing an inscription ...
... ment . On the 2d of October , 1860 , the earl invited the officers of the Methlic and Turves Volunteer rifles ( his own tenants ) to Haddo House , and pre- sented to each of them a handsome and valuable sword , bearing an inscription ...
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... ment , which was probably owing to the local influ- | ence of his family . A seat in the House of Commons being incompatible with employment under the crown , he now resigned his office as architect to their majesties ; but continued to ...
... ment , which was probably owing to the local influ- | ence of his family . A seat in the House of Commons being incompatible with employment under the crown , he now resigned his office as architect to their majesties ; but continued to ...
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... ment was broken ; that you let the French cavalry in upon you . " " Yes , please your majesty , " replied the gallant humourist , " but they didna gang back again . " The most important military service , however , in which Sir Andrew ...
... ment was broken ; that you let the French cavalry in upon you . " " Yes , please your majesty , " replied the gallant humourist , " but they didna gang back again . " The most important military service , however , in which Sir Andrew ...
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... ment of the office being injurious to his health , he removed to Roslin , and subsequently obtained a clerkship in the Register Office , Edinburgh . | He too small to maintain his family , and had moreover discovered that he was not ...
... ment of the office being injurious to his health , he removed to Roslin , and subsequently obtained a clerkship in the Register Office , Edinburgh . | He too small to maintain his family , and had moreover discovered that he was not ...
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: With a Supplemental Volume ... Robert Chambers,Thomas Thomson Predogled ni na voljo - 2015 |
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Količina 1 Robert Chambers Predogled ni na voljo - 1870 |
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Stran 172 - They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
Stran 256 - To leave the bonnie banks of Ayr. Farewell, old Coila's hills and dales, Her heathy moors and winding vales ; The scenes where wretched fancy roves, Pursuing past, unhappy loves ! Farewell, my friends ! Farewell, my foes ! My peace with these, my love with those — The bursting tears my heart declare ; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr 1 THE FAREWELL.
Stran 254 - I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.
Stran 267 - Lochiel, who, my father has often told me, was our firmest friend, may stay at home, and learn from the newspapers the fate of his prince.'— ' No,' said Lochiel, 'I'll share the fate of my prince; and so shall every man over whom nature or fortune hath given me any power.
Stran 257 - Burns seemed much affected by the print, or rather the ideas which it suggested to his mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose the lines were, and it chanced that nobody but myself remembered that they occur in a half-forgotten poem of Langhorne's called by the unpromising title of 'The Justice of the Peace'.
Stran 257 - His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I...
Stran 257 - Cold on Canadian hills, or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain — Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew ; The big drops mingling with the milk he drew, Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptized in tears.
Stran 254 - In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below...
Stran 255 - The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave.
Stran 260 - As to any remuneration, you may think my songs either above or below price ; for they shall absolutely be the one or the other. In the honest enthusiasm with which I embark in your undertaking, to talk of money, wages, fee, hire, etc. would be downright prostitution of soul ! A proof of each of the songs that I compose or amend I shall receive as a favour.